"Prophet" Leland Freeborn of Parowan Predicts Barack Obama Won't Take Office Due to Disasters

Photo: LA Times, Leland Freeborn, "Prophet of Parowan"

Everybody's a seer these days. Looking into the future and saying how Barack Obama will perform as the next president. According to the LA Times, Leland Freeborn of Parowan has predicted that Barack Obama won't be the next president. He claims his prophecy is grounded in religious truth. Right.

"I think that you should hear what my opinion about the Obama election is: that he will not be the next president. I said on my home page in August that if he lost to expect to see the 'riots' that 2 Peter 2:13 tells us about. He didn't lose. But the story is not finished yet. I still think they may begin the riots before Christmas 2008, as I said."

These riots, according to his prophecy, will encourage the "old, hard-line Soviet guard" to seize the moment and rain down nukes on the United States, killing at least 100 million of us. "Prepare now," Freeborn's letter concluded. "We are downwind from Las Vegas. I hope you can survive."Source: LA Times

Wow, how grim. So, who is Leland Freeborn? According to the LA Times,

A Mormon of substance, a father of 12, he had crashed his airplane in 1975 and fallen into a three-week coma, during which he went through "to the other side" and emerged a prophet.

Freeborn, now 66, took "a plural wife," as he put it, and parted ways with the church. He forfeited his wealth, spreading word of his prophecies. He appears to live now mainly on sales of newsletters and survival information packets advertised on his website.

Asked for examples of successful prophecies, he offered O.J. Simpson's murder acquittal and Al Gore's winning of the popular vote in 2000. But his core insight has been a repeated dream of seeing nuclear flashes to the west while shopping at a Wal-Mart during Christmas season. Source: LA Times

Of course, he has followers. He holds regular meetings in his living room and the group of believers had broken with the Church of Jesus Christ of Lattter-day Saints over polygamy, among other things. Why am I not surprised that polygamy is still on the table for them. I am guessing that Barack Obama is so weak and tainted that he will not be sworn in on January 20th. Right. Just another person trying to cast seeds of doubt about Obama's historic win.